Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Cliche Guide to a Classic Romance ❯ Meeting at The Park ( Chapter 2 )
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By: IdleFlame 
Anime/Manga: Naruto Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance | Type: Continuation | Uploaded On: 10.15.2007 | Pages: 2 | Words: 2.4K | Visits: 808 | Status: Work In Progress
Anime/Manga: Naruto Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance | Type: Continuation | Uploaded On: 10.15.2007 | Pages: 2 | Words: 2.4K | Visits: 808 | Status: Work In Progress
disclaimer: I do NOT own Naruto.
Step two - meeting in the park.
"And I looked around y'know. but there wasn't anyone there. "
Iruka sat there, hiding his small smile and holding back tears of sorrow behind the bowl of Ramen which was now unusually close to his face. 'These kids...they grew up so quick!'
"Uh...sensei?" Naruto asked exchanging his confused expression for a worried one. "Are you ok,"
Iruka snapped out of his thought and sat normally again, his wise teacher appearance back in place, and was now eating at a much calmer fashion. "I'm fine Naurto. I was just think about your situation."
"do you always eat like pig when your thinking?"
"What?! You idiot maybe you should watch yourself eat once in a while!" Iruka yelled knocking him in the head a couple times, leaving bumps that would surely bruise over night.
Naruto grabbed his head from the pain and mumbled curses under his breath. If there was on thing Iruka could do, it was inflict pain onto his former pupil for not thinking twice about his choice of words.
The older man cleared his throat and leaned back, slighty making sure not to fall off. "Now, Naruto." Iruka started when he once again had the blonds attention. "your over exaggerating"
Naruto’s mouth hung open for a second before replying slowly. "but there was No. One. There!! are you even listening to me?!" It ended in a shout with the boy waving his arms for a more dramatic effect.
Iruka chuckled at the younger boy, who seemed to grow taller with out growing any wiser. He seemed to have this childish sense of mind that would never disappear. In most cases this was good, but with certain things like this however it was bad. "Naruto, remember how you said Lee gave Sakura flowers all the time?"
The boy blinked and suddenly stopped waving his arms, before nodding and sitting down to hear the explanation of his former teacher. 'finally'
Iruka watched naruto in slight amusement before continuing. "You see when some one like a person they tend to buy them things, such as flowers and chocolate. sometimes jewelry."
"But why would I want any of that stuff? isn't that stuff a little girly. "
Iruka nodded , "Normally...Traditionally It would be a male giving a gift to a girl that he liked. The boy would buy something that he thought would intrest a girl. And girl who have a gentle or kind personality would often like flower, a girl of higher maintenance often likes jewelry. And a girl with a sweettooth would like candy or something sugary. ”
Naruto gave Iruka a blank look, his noddles hanging half way out of his mouth, looking quiet confused. "wha. . ."
“Don’t talk with your mouth full!!” Iruka reprimended, Wacking Naruto on the head twice. Once for talking with a full mouth. The second time just to make sure the message got threw to him.
Five minutes of whining later, naruto was back to eating his Ramen.
“so you mean the person who left me those thing was a guy?"
Iruka looked at Naruto's scared face and resisted his urge to so 'yes'. Iruka instead gave him a small smile and shook his head. "No, Naruto. Think about it. If you liked another boy" Iruka sighed seeing naruto about to yell. SO he calmly waited and as soon as naruto opened his mouth, Iruka took noodles from his own bowl and quickly shoved them in he blonds mouth. "Like I said IF you liked another boy. Would you get him flowers and candy?"
Naruto glared, sucked up the noodles and seemingly swallowed them with out chewing. He looked at Iruka thinking about the question.
Iruka started to worry when Naruto’s face started getting red from frustration and started growling to himself. SO The teacher did the only thing he could do. He held his breath waiting for the future hokage to start screaming.
Fortunately for Iruka and everyone else within a two mile radius, the blonde calmed down and finally just opted for shaking his head. “No I don’t think so. I mean I liked the candy and the flowers where pretty I guess but I mean I see flowers all the time, around town and when I go on missions. I go pass the flower shop everyday to get to the training grounds. It’s not really all that special.”
“And that’s true for most boys, but to a girl, it’s very different.”
Naruto groaned frustrated and dropped his head onto the table. “This is so confusing, girls are weird!” Naruto continued commenting on the behavior of girls while Iruka listened and in the far back of his mind a little voice was agreeing with Naruto. Because yes, the female mind was a very complicated thing, It always has been and always will be.
“Hey Iruka,” Naruto sstarted picking up his head from the table, “You said it was a girl, but that’s a little impossible.” Naruto just saw Iruka gave him a questioning look, so decided to continue. “Well I mean, the only girls around my age are, Sakura, Ino, tenten and hinata, right Well it couldn’t be Sakura or Ino cause there always chasing Sasuke. Tenten likes Neji and I don’t think Hinata likes me to much.”
Iruka looked surprised yet in some small way expected something like this. He knew he should have prepared for this ocassion earlier. “Come on Naruto there has to be atleast one Konoichi that you get along with, what about that girl from sand?”
Naruto was completely clueless about who he was talking about until his mind linked sand with Gaara. He remember Gaara and his team. Yeah one of them Had been female, his sister actually. “You mean Gaara’s sister. . .Temari?”
“Yeah that’s the one.”
“Okay, one she’s Dating Shikamaru and two I said none of them are intrested in me I didn’t say we didn’t get along.”
Iruka nodded understanding, although it was qiuet shocking to here that the Famous lazy ninja would get involved with something as troublesome as dating. “Well Why don’t you think Hinata likes you?”
Naruto sighed as he shoved the empty ramen bowel aside. “Well she never really talks to me, she never looks at me while talking, sometimes I think she advoids me on purpose. Like the one time I was walking threw the training grounds I saw her practicing her taijutsu she took one look at me and hid behind one of the stumps. I don’t think she knew that I saw her cause the closer I got the more she hid.”
Iruka carfully listened to Naruto tell the events of the almost encounters with the girl. And the more he heard the more he was certain of who the secret admirer was.
“Then this one time I saw her hiding behind the tree, she just sitting there watching me. Well it was starting to freak me out so I turned to say something to her, but then she took off running, so I went back to my training then on my way back I tripped over this rock which wasn’t there before and smashed my face into a stump which had exploding tags on it and I ended up in the hospital, and that old bat wouldn’t let me leave.”
Iruka held back from stabbing out Naruto’s eyes with his chopsticks. The boy was really dense, I mean if he saw this girl this many time you would think He would have put two and two together and figure out she was practically stalking him, just in a less violent and more quieter way. unlike the sasuke fanclub. They could get scary at times.
“Well She was in my room that much I know from one of the nurses. She left a few flowers in a vase and a small get well card. And you know I wasn’t at all suspiscious about it you know there flowers!! But when I went to touch it these bees came out and stung me! And not just one or two it had to of been like a whole hive over them. And some how I all of a sudden devoloped an allergy to bee’s. I mean come on!! Doesn’t it seem a little weird that everytime I see here something bad happens? I think she’s out to get me.”
Iruka chuckled at the boy’s obliviousness and exaggeration. If only Naruto would grow up mentally and not just physically. “Naruto, I’m sure she didn’t mean for thos thing to happen. They where probably just coincidence or some bad luck. I’m sure she ment well. She doesn’t seem like the type to plan your demise in the cellars of the Hyuuga house.”
Naruto looked at Iruka like he was crazy. “Are you serious? Haven’t you ever heard that saying you know about it always being the quiet kid?”
“Haven’t you ever heard of getting to know people before making such harsh comment? You should know that better then anyone, Naruto.”
“But she’s so weird and her face turns red at almost everything!All you have to do is say ‘hello’ and she turns in to a tamatoe and then she starts stuttering” Naurto exclaimed once again banging his head on the table earning him a pointed glare from the shops owner.
“Now Naruto That’s not very nice besides, She’s an extremely timid girl, She just feels a little. . .shy around people. I bet if you get to know her, you’ll make a new friend!”
Naruto looked a little skeptical about the idea and hesitantly nodded after a good ten minutes of thinking. “Fine I’ll go Find her and talk to her.” He said getting up and grabbing his bag. “ See you later Sensei!!!” He shouted before quickly running out the door ignoring the shouts of the owner.
Iruka stood there smiling. . .until he realized Naruto didn’t pay for his meal.
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Naruto grinned as he ran threw streets, making sure his former sensei wasn’t chasing after him. ‘for a teacher Iruka’s pretty slow.’ he thought slowing down to a walk.
Naruto walked around for a while before he reached road which had three different turns. On went towards his house, another to his house and the last went towards the school and park.
He decided that since it was a nice day outside and since there was nothing else to do at home he chose the school and park. He hadn’t been there in a while anyway.
He started walking passing the school he stood there for a few minutes remembering his times at the academy. All the pranks he pulls all the lectures he went threw and all the other bratty things he did as a kid. He laughed at the memories and continued walking till he reached the park.
Once there he suddenly stopped.
There sitting a few feet ahead of him was Hinata. She wasn’t doing anything more then just that, sitting. Almost like she was waiting for some one. She slowly turned her head towards Naruto.
Then time seemed to freeze, like in those horror movies when one was so caught up in fear they just sat there and watched the monster creep closer, just sitting there waiting for there unavoidable demise. Like when you here a doorknob jingling when your doing something bad, and you know whoever’s on the other side his going to punish you and give you a long boring lecture, and all you can do his fearfully wait for your impending doom.
In naruto’s mind the timid girl sitting on the bench acting so shy and quiet, had somehow grown eight feet tall and horns sprouted form her head and she grew fangs that where overly large and went down past her chin.
“N-naruto?”
The blonde shook the image out of his head, hearing the nervous tone in the girl voice. “H-hello Hinata, what are you doing here?”
Hinata looked surprised at the question, then again she always looked surprised when people talked to her. She start stumbling over her words trying to give him an explanation, her face turning even redder when she realized how she was talking and to whom.
‘Oh man she’s doing the blushing thing again. Why does she always do that. She’s creeping me out.’ Naruto thought as he watched the girl blush to the point that there was no trace of her natural skin tone. ‘But Iruka said to get to know her better before judging. . .I guess it couldn’t hurt’
“Hey hinata, are you busy right now?” He asked cutting the girl off of her explination.
The pale eyed girl looked up in surprise. “I-I um well I. . .” The girl gulped nervously before shaking her head furiosly. “N-no I’m n-not”
“Well would you like to go get something to eat or something, I was going to train with Sasuke but he’s being a bastard as usual. So I’m kinda bored.” He stated grinning, all the while the girl had invented a whole new shade of red.
The girl stood there stunned. She opened and closed her mouth repeatedly before she settled on simply nodding.
“Great! Why don’t you pick somewhere.” Naruto said enthusiastically, watching the girl nod again, turn quickly and start walking. All the while naruto was chanting in his head.
‘Please don’t poison me, please don’t poison me, please don’t poison me!’
Step two - meeting in the park.
"And I looked around y'know. but there wasn't anyone there. "
Iruka sat there, hiding his small smile and holding back tears of sorrow behind the bowl of Ramen which was now unusually close to his face. 'These kids...they grew up so quick!'
"Uh...sensei?" Naruto asked exchanging his confused expression for a worried one. "Are you ok,"
Iruka snapped out of his thought and sat normally again, his wise teacher appearance back in place, and was now eating at a much calmer fashion. "I'm fine Naurto. I was just think about your situation."
"do you always eat like pig when your thinking?"
"What?! You idiot maybe you should watch yourself eat once in a while!" Iruka yelled knocking him in the head a couple times, leaving bumps that would surely bruise over night.
Naruto grabbed his head from the pain and mumbled curses under his breath. If there was on thing Iruka could do, it was inflict pain onto his former pupil for not thinking twice about his choice of words.
The older man cleared his throat and leaned back, slighty making sure not to fall off. "Now, Naruto." Iruka started when he once again had the blonds attention. "your over exaggerating"
Naruto’s mouth hung open for a second before replying slowly. "but there was No. One. There!! are you even listening to me?!" It ended in a shout with the boy waving his arms for a more dramatic effect.
Iruka chuckled at the younger boy, who seemed to grow taller with out growing any wiser. He seemed to have this childish sense of mind that would never disappear. In most cases this was good, but with certain things like this however it was bad. "Naruto, remember how you said Lee gave Sakura flowers all the time?"
The boy blinked and suddenly stopped waving his arms, before nodding and sitting down to hear the explanation of his former teacher. 'finally'
Iruka watched naruto in slight amusement before continuing. "You see when some one like a person they tend to buy them things, such as flowers and chocolate. sometimes jewelry."
"But why would I want any of that stuff? isn't that stuff a little girly. "
Iruka nodded , "Normally...Traditionally It would be a male giving a gift to a girl that he liked. The boy would buy something that he thought would intrest a girl. And girl who have a gentle or kind personality would often like flower, a girl of higher maintenance often likes jewelry. And a girl with a sweettooth would like candy or something sugary. ”
Naruto gave Iruka a blank look, his noddles hanging half way out of his mouth, looking quiet confused. "wha. . ."
“Don’t talk with your mouth full!!” Iruka reprimended, Wacking Naruto on the head twice. Once for talking with a full mouth. The second time just to make sure the message got threw to him.
Five minutes of whining later, naruto was back to eating his Ramen.
“so you mean the person who left me those thing was a guy?"
Iruka looked at Naruto's scared face and resisted his urge to so 'yes'. Iruka instead gave him a small smile and shook his head. "No, Naruto. Think about it. If you liked another boy" Iruka sighed seeing naruto about to yell. SO he calmly waited and as soon as naruto opened his mouth, Iruka took noodles from his own bowl and quickly shoved them in he blonds mouth. "Like I said IF you liked another boy. Would you get him flowers and candy?"
Naruto glared, sucked up the noodles and seemingly swallowed them with out chewing. He looked at Iruka thinking about the question.
Iruka started to worry when Naruto’s face started getting red from frustration and started growling to himself. SO The teacher did the only thing he could do. He held his breath waiting for the future hokage to start screaming.
Fortunately for Iruka and everyone else within a two mile radius, the blonde calmed down and finally just opted for shaking his head. “No I don’t think so. I mean I liked the candy and the flowers where pretty I guess but I mean I see flowers all the time, around town and when I go on missions. I go pass the flower shop everyday to get to the training grounds. It’s not really all that special.”
“And that’s true for most boys, but to a girl, it’s very different.”
Naruto groaned frustrated and dropped his head onto the table. “This is so confusing, girls are weird!” Naruto continued commenting on the behavior of girls while Iruka listened and in the far back of his mind a little voice was agreeing with Naruto. Because yes, the female mind was a very complicated thing, It always has been and always will be.
“Hey Iruka,” Naruto sstarted picking up his head from the table, “You said it was a girl, but that’s a little impossible.” Naruto just saw Iruka gave him a questioning look, so decided to continue. “Well I mean, the only girls around my age are, Sakura, Ino, tenten and hinata, right Well it couldn’t be Sakura or Ino cause there always chasing Sasuke. Tenten likes Neji and I don’t think Hinata likes me to much.”
Iruka looked surprised yet in some small way expected something like this. He knew he should have prepared for this ocassion earlier. “Come on Naruto there has to be atleast one Konoichi that you get along with, what about that girl from sand?”
Naruto was completely clueless about who he was talking about until his mind linked sand with Gaara. He remember Gaara and his team. Yeah one of them Had been female, his sister actually. “You mean Gaara’s sister. . .Temari?”
“Yeah that’s the one.”
“Okay, one she’s Dating Shikamaru and two I said none of them are intrested in me I didn’t say we didn’t get along.”
Iruka nodded understanding, although it was qiuet shocking to here that the Famous lazy ninja would get involved with something as troublesome as dating. “Well Why don’t you think Hinata likes you?”
Naruto sighed as he shoved the empty ramen bowel aside. “Well she never really talks to me, she never looks at me while talking, sometimes I think she advoids me on purpose. Like the one time I was walking threw the training grounds I saw her practicing her taijutsu she took one look at me and hid behind one of the stumps. I don’t think she knew that I saw her cause the closer I got the more she hid.”
Iruka carfully listened to Naruto tell the events of the almost encounters with the girl. And the more he heard the more he was certain of who the secret admirer was.
“Then this one time I saw her hiding behind the tree, she just sitting there watching me. Well it was starting to freak me out so I turned to say something to her, but then she took off running, so I went back to my training then on my way back I tripped over this rock which wasn’t there before and smashed my face into a stump which had exploding tags on it and I ended up in the hospital, and that old bat wouldn’t let me leave.”
Iruka held back from stabbing out Naruto’s eyes with his chopsticks. The boy was really dense, I mean if he saw this girl this many time you would think He would have put two and two together and figure out she was practically stalking him, just in a less violent and more quieter way. unlike the sasuke fanclub. They could get scary at times.
“Well She was in my room that much I know from one of the nurses. She left a few flowers in a vase and a small get well card. And you know I wasn’t at all suspiscious about it you know there flowers!! But when I went to touch it these bees came out and stung me! And not just one or two it had to of been like a whole hive over them. And some how I all of a sudden devoloped an allergy to bee’s. I mean come on!! Doesn’t it seem a little weird that everytime I see here something bad happens? I think she’s out to get me.”
Iruka chuckled at the boy’s obliviousness and exaggeration. If only Naruto would grow up mentally and not just physically. “Naruto, I’m sure she didn’t mean for thos thing to happen. They where probably just coincidence or some bad luck. I’m sure she ment well. She doesn’t seem like the type to plan your demise in the cellars of the Hyuuga house.”
Naruto looked at Iruka like he was crazy. “Are you serious? Haven’t you ever heard that saying you know about it always being the quiet kid?”
“Haven’t you ever heard of getting to know people before making such harsh comment? You should know that better then anyone, Naruto.”
“But she’s so weird and her face turns red at almost everything!All you have to do is say ‘hello’ and she turns in to a tamatoe and then she starts stuttering” Naurto exclaimed once again banging his head on the table earning him a pointed glare from the shops owner.
“Now Naruto That’s not very nice besides, She’s an extremely timid girl, She just feels a little. . .shy around people. I bet if you get to know her, you’ll make a new friend!”
Naruto looked a little skeptical about the idea and hesitantly nodded after a good ten minutes of thinking. “Fine I’ll go Find her and talk to her.” He said getting up and grabbing his bag. “ See you later Sensei!!!” He shouted before quickly running out the door ignoring the shouts of the owner.
Iruka stood there smiling. . .until he realized Naruto didn’t pay for his meal.
**********************
Naruto grinned as he ran threw streets, making sure his former sensei wasn’t chasing after him. ‘for a teacher Iruka’s pretty slow.’ he thought slowing down to a walk.
Naruto walked around for a while before he reached road which had three different turns. On went towards his house, another to his house and the last went towards the school and park.
He decided that since it was a nice day outside and since there was nothing else to do at home he chose the school and park. He hadn’t been there in a while anyway.
He started walking passing the school he stood there for a few minutes remembering his times at the academy. All the pranks he pulls all the lectures he went threw and all the other bratty things he did as a kid. He laughed at the memories and continued walking till he reached the park.
Once there he suddenly stopped.
There sitting a few feet ahead of him was Hinata. She wasn’t doing anything more then just that, sitting. Almost like she was waiting for some one. She slowly turned her head towards Naruto.
Then time seemed to freeze, like in those horror movies when one was so caught up in fear they just sat there and watched the monster creep closer, just sitting there waiting for there unavoidable demise. Like when you here a doorknob jingling when your doing something bad, and you know whoever’s on the other side his going to punish you and give you a long boring lecture, and all you can do his fearfully wait for your impending doom.
In naruto’s mind the timid girl sitting on the bench acting so shy and quiet, had somehow grown eight feet tall and horns sprouted form her head and she grew fangs that where overly large and went down past her chin.
“N-naruto?”
The blonde shook the image out of his head, hearing the nervous tone in the girl voice. “H-hello Hinata, what are you doing here?”
Hinata looked surprised at the question, then again she always looked surprised when people talked to her. She start stumbling over her words trying to give him an explanation, her face turning even redder when she realized how she was talking and to whom.
‘Oh man she’s doing the blushing thing again. Why does she always do that. She’s creeping me out.’ Naruto thought as he watched the girl blush to the point that there was no trace of her natural skin tone. ‘But Iruka said to get to know her better before judging. . .I guess it couldn’t hurt’
“Hey hinata, are you busy right now?” He asked cutting the girl off of her explination.
The pale eyed girl looked up in surprise. “I-I um well I. . .” The girl gulped nervously before shaking her head furiosly. “N-no I’m n-not”
“Well would you like to go get something to eat or something, I was going to train with Sasuke but he’s being a bastard as usual. So I’m kinda bored.” He stated grinning, all the while the girl had invented a whole new shade of red.
The girl stood there stunned. She opened and closed her mouth repeatedly before she settled on simply nodding.
“Great! Why don’t you pick somewhere.” Naruto said enthusiastically, watching the girl nod again, turn quickly and start walking. All the while naruto was chanting in his head.
‘Please don’t poison me, please don’t poison me, please don’t poison me!’